Bandarlampung Health Workers Incentive Fund Delayed, This Is The Cause

BANDARLAMPUNG - The Bandarlampung City Health Office (Dinkes) admitted that the disbursement of the health worker incentive funds (nakes) was delayed. This is due to delays in data collection.

"The health worker incentive was late in paying because there was a delay in data collection from us (the Health Office) because we had to verify it first," said Head of the Bandarlampung City Health Office, Edwin Rusli in Bandarlampung, quoted by Antara, Tuesday, August 31.

However, he emphasized that the health worker incentive payment will be disbursed in the near future after the data collection or verification is complete.

He also mentioned that the incentives for health workers (nakes) in charge of handling COVID-19 in this city were only disbursed for one month in 2021.

"Yes, the health worker incentive payment was only paid in January this year," he said.

He also said that the rest of the delayed disbursement of the health worker incentives would be paid in stages by paying three months in advance, namely February, March and April.

"After we pay three months of delayed health workers incentives, we will pay off the rest next week," he said. Edwin also explained that the delay in the health worker payments was not because the funds that had been prepared were not available but there was indeed a delay in data collection from the Health Office.

"For the payment of health workers incentives at the Puskesmas and RSUD A Dadi Tjokrodipo, the total is around Rp. 350 million," he said.

Meanwhile, Deputy Mayor of Bandarlampung Deddy Amarullah revealed that the local city government remained cooperative in paying for access incentives as stipulated in Minister of Finance Regulation (PMK) No. 17 of 2021.

"We have allocated Rp11 billion for incentives for health workers," he said.